1688: The Germantown Quakers Protest Slavery
While the seventeenth century is in the news again this week thanks to the 1619 project, we thought we would draw attention to the efforts of some early American Quakers […]
Junípero Serra, Gaspar de Portolá, and the Spanish Conquest of California
Father Junípero Serra (1713–1784) founded the first Catholic “mission” in what is now present-day California 250 years ago, in July of 1769. To Serra, the enterprise was indeed a mission […]